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title: But he wasted the fifth part of Ireland, and then set forth through… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But he wasted the fifth part of Ireland, and then set forth through the sea to Wales. Who acts: dog. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Wooing of Olwen, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 146

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But he wasted the fifth part of Ireland, and then set forth through the sea to Wales.

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**Who acts:** dog · **What happens:** waste, set · **To what, where:** fifth part, Wales, sea

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Wooing of Olwen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7885:17:146
# text = But he wasted the fifth part of Ireland, and then set forth through the sea to Wales.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wasted	waste	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	fifth	fifth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
12	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
13	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Wales	Wales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **waste** | past | dog | the fifth part of Ireland |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient |
| 2 | **set** | infinitive | dog *not said here* |  | Wales | the sea | then | forth *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent through sea=Destination |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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